Friedrich Hollaender
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Friedrich Hollaender (in exile also Frederick Hollander; 18 October 1896 – 18 January 1976) was a German film composer and author.
He was born in London, where his father, operetta composer Victor Hollaender, worked as a musical director at the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Young Hollaender had a solid music and theatre family background: his uncle Gustav was director of the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, his uncle Felix Hollaender was a well-known novelist and drama critic, who later worked with Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater.
In 1899 Hollaender's family returned to Berlin, his father began teaching at the Stern Conservatory, where his son became a student in Engelbert Humperdinck's master class. In the evening he played the piano at silent film performances in local cinemas, developing the art of musical improvisation. By the age of 18 he was employed as a répétiteur at the New German Theatre in Prague and also was put in charge of troop entertainment at the Western Front of World War I.
Having finished his studies, he composed music for productions by Max Reinhardt and became involved in Berlin's Kabarett scene. Together with Kurt Tucholsky, Klabund, Walter Mehring, Mischa Spoliansky and Joachim Ringelnatz he worked in venues like Reinhardt's Schall und Rauch ensemble at the Großes Schauspielhaus or the Wilde Bühne led by Trude Hesterberg at the Theater des Westens in Charlottenburg, where he established the Tingel-Tangel-Theater cabaret in 1931.
In 1919 he married the actress Blandine Ebinger, the couple divorced in 1926. Their daughter Philine later became the wife of the cabarettist Georg Kreisler. Hollaender had his final breakthrough, when he wrote the film score for The Blue Angel (1930), including the most popular song "Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)", performed by Marlene Dietrich.
He had to leave Nazi Germany in 1933 because of his Jewish descent[1] and first moved to Paris. He emigrated to the United States the next year, where he wrote the music for over a hundred films, including Destry Rides Again (1939), A Foreign Affair (1948), The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953 Academy Award nomination) and Sabrina (1954). Many of his songs were again made famous by Marlene Dietrich. He can be seen as the piano accompanist in A Foreign Affair (on the songs, "Black Market", "Illusions" and "Ruins of Berlin"). He received four Academy Award nominations for composition. As "Frederick Hollander", he also wrote the semi-autobiographical novel Those Torn From Earth, released in 1941, which details the flight from Germany that many Jewish members of the film industry embarked on after the Nazis came to power and instituted the Nuremberg Laws.
In 1956 he returned to Germany and again worked for several years as a revue composer at the Theater Die Kleine Freiheit in Munich. He made a cameo appearance in Billy Wilder's film comedy One, Two, Three (1960) as a Kapellmeister. Hollaender died 1976 in Munich and is buried in the Obergiesing Ostfriedhof.
Fotos
Filme (109)
The Empty Center
1998 · Music
The Blue Angel
1996 · Music
Perfectly Frank: Frank Loesser Revued
1981 · Songs
One, Two, Three
1961 · Conductor at Grand Hotel (uncredited)
The Haunted Castle
1960 · Original Music Composer
We're No Angels
1955 · Original Music Composer
Phffft
1954 · Original Music Composer
Sabrina
1954 · Original Music Composer
It Should Happen to You
1954 · Original Music Composer
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
1953 · Original Music Composer, Songs
Androcles and the Lion
1952 · Original Music Composer
The First Time
1952 · Original Music Composer
Darling, How Could You!
1951 · Original Music Composer
My Forbidden Past
1951 · Original Music Composer
Born Yesterday
1950 · Original Music Composer
Walk Softly, Stranger
1950 · Original Music Composer
Born to Be Bad
1950 · Original Music Composer
Never a Dull Moment
1950 · Music
A Dangerous Profession
1949 · Original Music Composer
Bride for Sale
1949 · Original Music Composer
Strange Bargain
1949 · Original Music Composer
Adventure in Baltimore
1949 · Original Music Composer
Caught
1949 · Original Music Composer
A Woman's Secret
1949 · Original Music Composer
A Foreign Affair
1948 · Piano Player at The Lorelei (uncredited), Original Music Composer
Wallflower
1948 · Original Music Composer
Berlin Express
1948 · Original Music Composer
Stallion Road
1947 · Original Music Composer
The Perfect Marriage
1947 · Original Music Composer
Never Say Goodbye
1946 · Original Music Composer
The Verdict
1946 · Original Music Composer
Janie Gets Married
1946 · Original Music Composer
The Bride Wore Boots
1946 · Original Music Composer
Cinderella Jones
1946 · Original Music Composer
My Name Is Julia Ross
1945 · Additional Music
Christmas in Connecticut
1945 · Original Music Composer
The Affairs of Susan
1945 · Original Music Composer
Conflict
1945 · Original Music Composer
Leave It to Blondie
1945 · Original Music Composer
The Missing Juror
1944 · Additional Music
The Soul of a Monster
1944 · Music
Once Upon a Time
1944 · Original Music Composer
The Chance of a Lifetime
1943 · Additional Music
Princess O'Rourke
1943 · Music
Background to Danger
1943 · Original Music Composer
The Talk of the Town
1942 · Original Music Composer
Wings for the Eagle
1942 · Original Music Composer
Murder in the Big House
1942 · Original Music Composer
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941 · Original Music Composer
You Belong to Me
1941 · Original Music Composer
Manpower
1941 · Accompanist (uncredited)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
1941 · Original Music Composer
Million Dollar Baby
1941 · Original Music Composer
Footsteps in the Dark
1941 · Original Music Composer
Life with Henry
1941 · Original Music Composer
Victory
1940 · Original Music Composer
South of Suez
1940 · Original Music Composer
Arise, My Love
1940 · Songs
Seven Sinners
1940 · Songs
Golden Gloves
1940 · Original Music Composer
The Great McGinty
1940 · Original Music Composer
Queen of the Mob
1940 · Original Music Composer
Safari
1940 · Original Music Composer
Typhoon
1940 · Original Music Composer
Too Many Husbands
1940 · Music
The Farmer's Daughter
1940 · Songs
Remember the Night
1940 · Original Music Composer
Destry Rides Again
1939 · Songs
Disputed Passage
1939 · Original Music Composer
Honeymoon in Bali
1939 · Original Music Composer
Night Work
1939 · Music
Man About Town
1939 · Songs, Original Music Composer
Invitation to Happiness
1939 · Original Music Composer
Midnight
1939 · Original Music Composer
Zaza
1939 · Songs, Music
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
1938 · Original Music Composer
True Confession
1937 · Original Music Composer
Angel
1937 · Music
Artists & Models
1937 · Songs
Easy Living
1937 · Original Music Composer
Internes Can't Take Money
1937 · Original Music Composer
John Meade's Woman
1937 · Original Music Composer
The Jungle Princess
1936 · Music
Hideaway Girl
1936 · Music
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936 · Music
Murder with Pictures
1936 · Original Music Composer
A Son Comes Home
1936 · Music
Desire
1936 · Original Music Composer
Till We Meet Again
1936 · Original Music Composer
Anything Goes
1936 · Songs
Rose of the Rancho
1936 · Original Music Composer
Hands Across the Table
1935 · Original Music Composer
Accent on Youth
1935 · Original Music Composer
Shanghai
1935 · Original Music Composer
I Am Suzanne!
1933 · Music
The Only Girl
1933 · Director, Music Arranger
Moi et l'impératrice
1933 · Director
The Only Girl
1933 · Director
Tumultes
1932 · Original Music Composer
The Tempest
1932 · Music
In the act
1931 · Songs
The Man in Search of His Murderer
1931 · Vorsitzender der „Weißen Weste“, Original Music Composer
Road to Rio
1931 · Music
Burglars
1930 · Original Music Composer
The Great Desire
1930 · Music
The Other
1930 · Music
The Blue Angel
1930 · Pianist (uncredited), Original Music Composer
The Wife's Crusade
1926 · Music Score Producer
Prinz Kuckuck
1919 · Music